Companies · Restaurants

Kitchen Cafe, LLC

BOULDER · Restaurants

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Kitchen Cafe, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$18.2M
Total raised · real
3
Rounds
1.5×
Latest step-up
Top 6%
Sector rank · raised
Series A
Latest stage · inferred · Thu Jan 01 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Kitchen Cafe, LLC looks over-valued against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.

Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the restaurants sector profile.

Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.

Over-valued
  • Modeled value is 1.70× the median modeled value of Series A Restaurants companies in 2013–2015 (27 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Dormant
  • Last raise 11.5 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 13 months.
  • Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.

Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

Kitchen Cafe, LLC behaves more like a recurring private-offering issuer than a conventional venture-backed operating company.

Issuer structure
Company-like
No recurring-offering pattern strong enough to override normal financing interpretation.
Lifecycle
15.0 yr record
Peak capital year was 2015 with $9.5M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 95% of Restaurants peers
Capital scale is ahead of 95% of Restaurants peers; modeled value is above 94% of peers by modeled value. Large capital with mid-pack modeled value can signal an issuer/program profile rather than operating-company growth.
Valuation reliability
Normal applicability
Stage/dilution valuation models are weakest when the issuer is broad-sector, recurring, or vehicle-like.
Operating evidence
Sparse
No clear CEO/founder/principal role is surfaced, so operating-company confidence is lower.
Data quality
Consistent
Canonical totals and visible filing detail are broadly aligned.
What triggered this
  • Legal name looks like an issuer vehicle rather than a product company.
  • No clearly named CEO/founder/principal role in the public records surfaced here.
  • No verified homepage on the profile yet.
  • Capital program peaked in 2015: $9.5M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $9.5M on 2015-01-01.
How to read the page
  • Read this less like a startup funding journey and more like a capital-raising program.
  • Stage-based valuation and peer labels have lower applicability for this pattern.
  • The more important signal is lifecycle: repeated filings ended years ago, so current activity needs outside confirmation.
Leadership

No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.

Explore how these operators interlock with other companies in the operator network.

Where it sits in Restaurants

Kitchen Cafe, LLC is one of 2292 Restaurants companies tracked from BOULDER. By capital raised it ranks among the largest (ahead of 95% of sector peers), and among the largest by modeled valuation est..

Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.

As reported in public records reported — not modeled.

US
Jurisdiction
Amount raised vs valuation, by round

Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.

Amount raised · realModeled valuation · estCumulative funded · real
$0$13M$25M$38M$50MSeed · 2011-06-17 Raised $2.5M (real) Modeled valuation $8.8M (est)$2.5M$8.8MSeed2011Series A · 2013-07-16 Raised $6.2M (real) Modeled valuation $18M (est)$6.2M$18MSeries A2013Series A · 2015-01-01 Raised $9.5M (real) Modeled valuation $27M (est)$9.5M$27MSeries A2015+$6.2M+$9.5MCumulative $18M

The line shows cumulative reported funding over the period; + labels show new capital added between points when there is room. Toggle on-bar figures, plus the niche-peer and market averages, to read this company against its cohort. Benchmarks are modeled medians.

Financing ladder & sequence gaps
Seed$2.5M · 2011
Series A$6.2M · 2013
Series A extension$9.5M · 2015

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 67%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$27.3M
Base estimate est.
$10.9M
Conservative case
$148.5M
Upside case
$43.4M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series Aa $4.0M–$15M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the restaurants sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Seed · modeled $8.8M · 2011-06-172011Series A · modeled $17.7M · 2013-07-16Series A · modeled $27.3M · 2015-01-012015
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
22%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
46%
Survival probability
25% low · 63% high
1.05×/yr
Annual markup
1.33×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
11.5 yr actual, capped for stale marks
restaurants
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
21 mo
Avg between rounds
$5.1M/yr
Capital velocity
15.0 yr
On record since
2011
First round
3
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 2292 companies in Restaurants. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages) 20× above median
This company$18.2M
Sector median$900K
Latest round — vs other Series A rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 1.7× above median
This company$9.5M
Sector median$5.7M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 10× above median
This company$27.3M
Sector median$2.6M

Raised more than 95% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 94% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Series A) that last raised in the same ~3-year era, ranked by modeled value est. (not money raised). This is the exact set the analyst read compares against, so a like-for-like cohort is what makes "over/under-valued" meaningful. This company ranks #6 of 27.

This companyCohort peer
$10.0M$100.0M$1.0M$10.0M$100.0MCapital raised (log)Vitaligent, LLC · Series A Raised $14.0M · modeled $40.1M (est)Lyfe Kitchen, LLC · Series A Raised $23.8M · modeled $35.4M (est)Alliance Pancake Partners, LP · Series A Raised $11.0M · modeled $31.5M (est)Border Partners LP · Series A Raised $10.9M · modeled $31.2M (est)Peter DeFries Corp · Series A Raised $10.0M · modeled $28.6M (est)Beefsteak LLC · Series A Raised $9.3M · modeled $26.5M (est)Bruxie, LLC · Series A Raised $10.3M · modeled $25.8M (est)Andre Blaustein Kill & Mccarthy, Llp · Series A Raised $16.9M · modeled $25.0M (est)976 Madison Restaurant LLC · Series A Raised $8.5M · modeled $24.3M (est)ModMarket, LLC · Series A Raised $11.7M · modeled $19.0M (est)Cafe Holdings Corp · Series A Raised $6.6M · modeled $19.0M (est)Kitchen Cafe, LLC (this company) Raised $18.2M · modeled $27.3M (est)Kitchen Cafe, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Vitaligent, LLCSeries A$14.0M$40.1M2.50×
Lyfe Kitchen, LLCSeries A$23.8M$35.4M2.21×
Alliance Pancake Partners, LPSeries A$11.0M$31.5M1.97×
Border Partners LPSeries A$10.9M$31.2M1.95×
Peter DeFries CorpSeries A$10.0M$28.6M1.79×
Kitchen Cafe, LLC this companySeries A$18.2M$27.3M1.70×
Beefsteak LLCSeries A$9.3M$26.5M1.65×
Bruxie, LLCSeries A$10.3M$25.8M1.61×
Andre Blaustein Kill & Mccarthy, LlpSeries A$16.9M$25.0M1.56×
976 Madison Restaurant LLCSeries A$8.5M$24.3M1.52×
ModMarket, LLCSeries A$11.7M$19.0M1.19×
Cafe Holdings CorpSeries A$6.6M$19.0M1.19×
Full financing history

Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.

StageAmount · realAnnouncedPost-money · estValue · estConf.
Seed$2.5M2011-06-17$12.5M$8.8M90%
Series A$6.2M2013-07-16$28.1M$17.7M90%
Series A$9.5M2015-01-01$43.4M$27.3M90%
What happened at each round

Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.

  1. Seed$2.5M2011-06-17
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
  2. Series A$6.2M2013-07-16
    • Raised again after 25 mo — slower than the ~13 mo sector norm.
    • Round 2.5× larger than the prior — scaling up.
  3. Series A$9.5M2015-01-01
    • Raised 18 mo later, in step with the ~13 mo sector norm.
    • Round 1.5× larger than the prior — scaling up.
Intelligence
2016 ~Q4
Modeled next raise · ~21mo cadence
$14.7M
Modeled next size est.range $9.6M$23.6M
1.5×
Last step-up
$5.1M/yr
Capital velocity

Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.

Key people & operators

Officers, directors and promoters named in this company's public recordsreported — the people who run it (not its investors). "Also runs" counts come from name-matching across all records, so verify before acting.

PersonRoleAlso runsTied since
Kimbal Musk4 other2011-06
Merle Waterman2 other2015-01
Andre Pieterse2015-01
Hugo Matheson2011-06
Jen Lewin Musk2011-06
Registry & provenance

Kitchen Cafe, LLC is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

United States
Country of record
US
Jurisdiction
1524808
SEC CIK
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Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.

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Frequently asked
How much funding has Kitchen Cafe, LLC raised?
Kitchen Cafe, LLC has raised approximately $18.2M in disclosed capital across 3 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is Kitchen Cafe, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Kitchen Cafe, LLC is approximately $27.3M (modeled range $10.9M–$148.5M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Kitchen Cafe, LLC at?
Kitchen Cafe, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Series A. Its most recent recorded round closed around Thu Jan 01.
What does Kitchen Cafe, LLC do and where is it based?
Kitchen Cafe, LLC operates in the Restaurants sector, based in BOULDER.
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